Marvin Herzog | |
Birth Date: | 13 September 1927 |
Birth Place: | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Fields: | Yiddish |
Workplaces: | Columbia University |
Alma Mater: | Columbia University |
Doctoral Advisor: | Uriel Weinreich |
Marvin (Mikhl) I. Herzog (September 13, 1927 – June 28, 2013) was a Yiddish language Professor at Columbia University.
Herzog received his Ph.D. from Columbia under Uriel Weinreich.
In 1967, he became the director, and then the editor-in-chief, of the Yiddish Atlas Project at Columbia University, which publishes, in conjunction with YIVO, The Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry (LCAAJ).[1]
Herzog, Marvin, et al. ed., YIVO, The Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry, 3 vols., Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen, 1992–2000, .